Domestic Violence
Attorney General's Advisory Committee on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence: Ending Violence So Children Can Thrive
Alternate Title
Ending Violence So Children Can Thrive
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bryon L. Dorgan
Joanne Shenandoah
Dolores Subia Bigfoot
Eric Broderick
Eddie F. Brown ... [et al.]
Description
Initiative strives to prevent exposure to violence, mitigate the negative impact of exposure when it does happen and spread awareness.
AWCS Host Conference to Create an Awareness
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chereise Morris
Windspeaker, vol. 26, no. 7, October 2008, p. 11
Description
Author discusses the first World Conference of Women's Shelters arguing that governments need to understand that social problems have an economic and historical social basis.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Background Document: Grey Literature Annotated Bibliography: Women Fleeing Domestic Violence and Housing and Homelessness, with a Focus on Aboriginal Women
Alternate Title
Grey Literature: Housing and Homelessness and Women Fleeing Domestic Violence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Lauridsen
Description
Focuses on reports published between 2005 and 2015.
"Background document for March 11, 2015 Dialogue."
Black Eyes All of the Time: Intimate Violence, Aboriginal Women & the Justice System
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Greg Marquis
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 166-179
Description
Book review of: Black Eyes All of the Time by Anne McGillivray and Brenda Comaskey. Focuses on Carol LaPrairie's chapter on sentencing of Aboriginal offenders.
Breaking Free: A Proposal for Change to Aboriginal Family Violence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Native Women’s Association
Description
Report includes: explanation of methodology (report largely based on surveys), review of services available, Canadian Justice system, community care and social workers, summary of the extent of the problem in Ontario, proposals for action.
Breaking Free, Breaking Through: An Arts-Based Research Project to Examine Violence against Aboriginal Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Ontario Native Womens' Association (ONWA)
Description
Project to identify protective factors which led women to leave abusive relationships and stay away permanently. Research involved women from five Ontario cities: Fort Frances, Hamilton, Ottawa, Timmins and Thunder Bay.
Brief on COVID-Response and Recovery Issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families in Contact with Child Protection Services
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Secretariat of National Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)
Description
Brief discussion of issues as well as recommendations in seven key areas: access to technology; service workforce and funding arrangements; mental health; family violence; prevention and early intervention; support for kinship carers; and family and cultural contact, reunification and permanent care.
Can We Compare Violence Data Across Countries?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vanita Sundaram
Tine Curtis
Karin Helweg-Larsen
Peter Bjerregaard
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 2, 2004, pp. 389-396
Description
Conclusions of study enable policy makers to prescribe solutions to develop and implement preventative strategies.
Canada: Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada
Alternate Title
Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amnesty International
Description
Discusses issues involved with violence against Aboriginal women, presents nine case studies of murdered and missing women and makes recommendations for policies to ensure the safety these women.
Canadian Aboriginal Women and Their 'Criminality': The Cycle of Violence in the Context of Difference
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret A. Jackson
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 32, no. 2, August 1, 1999, pp. 197-208
Description
Argues cycle of violence and criminality has emerged from the colonial legacy of assimilationist policies and offers strategies for breaking the cycle.
Case Comment: R. v. Gladue
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean Lash
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, Women 2000: Eradicating Poverty and Violence in the 21st Century, Fall, 2000, pp. 85-91
Description
Comments on spousal abuse, domestic violence and discrimination against Aboriginal women in the Canadian justice system.
The Cedar Project: Historical, Structural and Interpersonal Determinants of Involvement in Survival Sex Work Over Time Among Indigenous Women Who Have Used Drugs in Two Canadian Cities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richa Sharma
Sherri Pooyak
Kate Jongbnloed
David Zamar
Margo E. Pearce ... [et al.]
International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 87, 2021, p. 103012
Description
A study that focuses on Indigenous female drug using sex workers in British Columbia to discuss the culture of violence and its ties to both historical and ongoing colonization.
Ceremony and Transitions: Culture-Based Approaches to Violence Prevention
Author/Creator
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Includes three case studies: Ininew Friendship Centre, Cochrane, Ontario; St. David Catholic Elementary School, Sudbury, Ontario; Ohero:kon (Under the Husk) at Six Nations of the Grand River; and N’Amerind Friendship Centre, London, Ontario.
Chairperson-Initiated Complaint and Public Interest Investigation Regarding Policing in Northern British Columbia: Chairperson's Final Report after Commissioner's Response
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian McPhail
Description
Investigation examined RCMP members' conduct in six areas: public intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons reports, domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth.
Appendices include interim report and RCMP Commissioner's preliminary review and response.
Characteristics of Investigations Involving First Nations Children Compared to White Children in Ontario in 2013
Alternate Title
Information Sheet (Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal) ; #192E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenn Richard
Jennifer Ma
Barbara Fallon
Description
Uses information from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013. Statistics for child functioning issues, caregiver risk factor concerns, and household risk factors.
Clear Skies: A Family Violence Story
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Healthy Aboriginal Network
Zoe Hopkins
Ezra Claytan Daniels
Sean Muir
Tara Audibert
Description
Video version of graphic novel.
Duration: 15:01.
Clear Skies: A Family Violence Story
The Colonial Context of Violence: Reflections on Violence in the Lives of Native American Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hilary N. Weaver
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 24, no. 9, September 2009, pp. 1552-1563
Description
Discusses how gender roles have changed under colonization, the extent of violence, and how its eradication against women.
Colorism’s Effect on the Presentation of Performative Justice for Indigenous Women in Video News Media
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sarah Bernal
Mundi: Global Studies Society Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Global Connections, 2020, pp. 1-33
Description
Using a comparative case study to examine the unequal mainstream media coverage of murdered Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in Mexico. The findings show that non-Indigenous cases are given more and longer media coverage that provides those cases a "higher profile" for law enforcement.
Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform: Final Report. Volume 2: Submissions to the Commission
Alternate Title
Final Report from the Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform.
[Volume I: Leagacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kearney Healy
Ronna Jevne
Rae Mitten
Gerald T. G. Seniuk
John Burrows
Paul Joffe
Willie Littlechild
Description
Content consists of selected submissions and contracted papers that reflect research and opinion of organizations and writers on critical issues in justice reform in Saskatchewan.
Volume I Legacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change.
A Community Development Approach to Mental Health Services
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Kamin
Romeo Beatch
Northern Review, no. 7, Rural and Northern Social Work, Summer, 1991, pp. 92-111
Description
Looks at providing social services to people living in remote Arctic communities of the Northwest Territories.